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Mississippi Senators consider moving rebuilt CSX rail line (MarketWatch posted the following article on its website on April 18.) NEW YORK -- Mississippi's two U.S. senators included $700 million in an emergency war spending bill to relocate a Gulf Coast rail line that has already been rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina at a cost of at least $250 million, The Washington Post reported in its Tuesday editions. Republican Sens. Trent Lott and Thad Cochran, who have the backing of their state's economic development agencies and tourism industry, say the CSX Corp. (CSX) freight line must be moved to save it from the next hurricane and to protect Mississippi's growing coastal population from rail accidents. But the Post reports that critics of the measure call it a gift to coastal developers and the casino industry that would be paid for with money carved out of tight Katrina relief funds and piggybacked onto funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. "It is ludicrous for the Senate to spend $700 million to destroy and relocate a rail line that is in perfect working order, particularly when it recently underwent a $250 million repair," said Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), who is planning to challenge the funding when the $106.5 billion war spending bill reaches the Senate floor. "American taxpayers are generous and are happy to restore damaged property, but it is wrong for senators to turn this tragedy into a giveaway for economic developers." Tuesday, April 18, 2006 © 1997-2010 Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen

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